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<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.comEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!http://www.sfbg.com/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal
<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.comEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!http://www.sfbg.com/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal
<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.comEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!http://www.sfbg.com/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal
<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.comEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!http://www.sfbg.com/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal
<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.comEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!http://www.sfbg.com/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal
<p><!--paging_filter--> <strong>EDITORIAL </strong>For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project.<br />
<p lang="en-US">But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. <span class="read-more"><a href="/bruce/2012/04/03/editorial-reject-cpmc-deal"><strong>Read more &raquo;</strong></a></span></p>
Chamber of CommerceCPMCMayor LeeSF General HospitalSF SupervisorsSt.Luke's HospitalTue, 03 Apr 2012 22:53:20 +0000bruce24413 at http://www.sfbg.com